Window-shade attachment.



No. 633,582. Patented Sept. 26, I899;

C. E. GABBETSUN.

llNiTnn STATES l nrnw'r @rricrim CHARLES E. GARRETSON, OF DALLAS, TEXAS.

WINDOW-SHADE ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,582, dated September 26, 1899.

Application filed June 16. 1899- beria-l No.720,828- (No model) To to whom it may concern.

Beit known that 1, CHARLES E. GARRETSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dallas, in the county of Dallas and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful \Vindow-Shade Attachment, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to window-shades, and more particularly to supporting means therefor; and it has for its object to provide a cheap and efficieut structure through the medium of which a window-shade may be secured upon the face of a window-frame and will be adapted for bodily adjustment with respect theretoto shade the different portions of the window and facilitate ventilation.

As window-shades are usually hung the ends of the rollers are engaged with brackcts, which are thus fixed through the medium of nails or screws to the face of the windowframe. This necessitates the rolling of the entire curtain upon its roller in order to enable a free circulation of air when the adjacent window is lowered from its top. In my construction I attach to the face of the frame and at each side of the window-opening a guideway, each consisting of two strips connected at their ends and separated intermediate their ends by an interspace in which travel the ends of a bar to which are fixed the usual roller-holdingbrackets. Connected with each end of the bar is a rod having an outwardlyprojecting pin adapted to suecessively enter perforations in the guideway to hold the cross-bar and the curtain carried thereby at different elevations. These pins are held in their engagement with the perforations by means of springs which hold them normally outwardly, and the pins are forced from their engagement by pressure upon the laterally and outwardly extending ends of the rods.

In the drawings forming a portion of this specification and in which like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a window-frame equipped with my shadeholding attachment. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. Sis a detail perspective of the lockingrod.

Referring now to the drawings accompany ing this specification, I secure to the outer face of a window-frame and at each side of the window-openingthereof a guideway, each of which consists of a flat plate 5, secured directly to the casing, and a second plate 6, having its extremities bent downwardly, then bent outwardly in opposite directions to form feet '7, having perforations therein for the reception of screws ll, which latter are also passed through alining perforations in the plates 5 and into the woodwork of the window-frame, thus forming a means of attachment of the plates (3 to the plates 5 and also for the attachment of both plates to the win (low-casing. Before the attachment of the plates 6 additional attaching-screws 10 are passed through the plate 5 and into the win- (low-casing.

Transversely of the window-opening and with its ends lying within the interspaces between the plates 5 and 6 is abar 11, which is held against lateral displacement through the medium of clips 12, secured thereto, and bent outwardly to lie upon the outer face of the plates 6. Passed through the vertical perforations 13 at each end of the bar 11 is an operating and locking rod 14, which extends downwardly between the plates 5 and 6 and having its end bent laterally at 15 to project from between the plates, the extremities of said bar being then bent forwardly, as shown at 16, and provided with a knob 17. Adjacent the lower end of each of the rods 14 and extending forwardly at right angles thereto is a pin 18, adapted to successively engage corresponding perforations 19 in the corresponding plate 6, said projection or pin being forced into such engagement and held therein through the medium of a flat spring 19, one end of which is secured to the rod 14 and the other endof which slidably engages the adjacent plate 5. Thus it will be seen that by pressing inwardly upon the knobs 17 the pins 18 may be disengaged from their respective perforations against the tendency of the springs 19 and that the rods 1* may be then manipulated to raise or lower the bar 11 to the desired extent.

Upon the bar 11 are fixed two shade-brackets 20 and 21 and with which are engaged the ends of a shade-ro1ler 22, carryinga shade 23, provided with the usual cord 24:. Thus it will be seen that by manipulation of the cord 24:

the shade 23 may be adjusted as desired with respect to the bar lland that through the medium of the rods 14 the shades may be adjusted bodily and vertically of the window and caused to assume any position desired, it being of course understood that the shade-roller is of the common spring-roll form.

It will be evident that I may varythe speciiic construction and arrangement herein shown and described, and that I may employ whatever form of shade and roller that may be desired, that I may vary the form and arrangement of the shade-bracket, and that I may alter the specific construction and arrangement shown and described without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. The combination with the window-casing, of a guideway at each side of the opening thereof, a bar having its ends disposed in said gnideways, perforations in the guideway, rods within the guideways connected with said bar and having pins adapted to enter said perforations successively, and a spring connected with each rod and bearing within the guideways and adapted to force and hold the rods outwardly to engage the pins with and hold them in the perforations, and a shade carried by the bar.

2. The combination with a window-casing, of a guideway at each side of the opening thereof, said guideways having openings therein, a bar havingits ends disposed in said guideways, rods within the guideways and projecting therefrom and connected with said bar and having pins adapted to enter the per forations in the gnideways, meansfor forcing the rods outwardly to engage the pins with and hold them in the perforations, and ashade carried by the bar.

3. The combination with a window-casing, of a guideway arranged at each side of the opening thereof, each of said guideways consisting of a base-plate, and a second plate 1ying thereabove and separated therefrom by an interspace, said second plate having its ends bent downwardly and outwardly to engage the first-named plate, a bar having its ends disposed within the guideways, clips carried by said bar and engaging the guideways, rods rigidly connected with the ends of the bar and extending downwardly within the guideways, perforations in the upper plates, pins carried by said rods and adapted to engage said perforations successively, said rods being bent laterally and outwardly to form means for engagement thereof to operate them, springs carried by said rods and engaging the lower plates to hold the pins in engagement with the perforations of the upper plates, and a shade carried by the bar.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES E. GARRETSON.

IVitnesses:

J OHN A. BARNARD, S. S. KIRK. 

